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  1. se7enthdevil
    there is a lonicera nitida outside our house and it looks exactly like a box hedge so much so that we mistook it for one.. grows a little faster but is easily controlled.
  2. se7enthdevil
    under Ultra Violet rays this stuff is amazing... it's got to be the coolest thing i've ever seen...
  3. se7enthdevil
    got a few more bowls out of some of the timber i've converted. there is some nice figure that goes with the grain in some of this wood which was from the main stem and there is even one bowl which i will have to call the yin yang bowl for obvious reasons. .
  4. se7enthdevil
    i've put the nest of three on here before but this was the last few pics i took of the whole set before it went off to its new owner (who owned the original tree) somewhere down in glastonbury. the mother bowl is about 14" wide and 5 1/2"deep. .
  5. se7enthdevil
    these are equal for me the shawshank redemption and the green mile. to round off the top 5 Chaplin Anna and the king 2001 space odyssey
  6. se7enthdevil
    yes i'll take them... let me know how much postage will be and i'll pay it. i know what two are but the one on the left is not obvious.
  7. se7enthdevil
    it's fine for most people mate. i've cut turned and sanded more than most in this country including greenheart and purpleheart and still the only timber i've had trouble with is the airborne dust of Iroko.
  8. se7enthdevil
    master craftsmanship sir...
  9. se7enthdevil
    you may as well be attempting to cut concrete with a hand tool. green heart was not often harvested in south america until the arrival of the powered saw or chainsaw.
  10. se7enthdevil
    i'm loving this timber more and more... .
  11. se7enthdevil
    counted the rings and this 60'+ 32" diameter tree was only 45 years old.
  12. se7enthdevil
    very chuffed mate. i thank both you and shilo for helping me obtain it... the bowls have gone a bit pale as it starts to dry but the colour should return once oiled. very dense timber too. the only record i can find for P. chinensis states that it should be 990kgm3 at 15% mc which is around 62lbft3. i've a sample on the radiator as we speak to see what it weighs once dry.
  13. se7enthdevil
    certainly looks like a privet species possibly Ligustrum ovalifolium but i'll let other more knowledgeable people confirm that one.
  14. se7enthdevil
    it seems they can be both. this link has a picture of autumn leaves that show a leaf that is slightly staggered and one next to it that is almost perfectly opposite. https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/pistacia_chinensis.htm the twig and leaf buds are the same too. the timber i have received from this tree has also been positively identified by three individuals as Pistacia chinensis too.
  15. se7enthdevil
    great, it'll be interesting to find out what it is. where in the country are you?
  16. se7enthdevil
    Well i wasn't expecting that. putting timber under UV lighting can really aid timber identification and the green i sort of knew about as lots in the anacardiaceae glow quite nicely but dark blue sapwood was not one i've heard of before.
  17. se7enthdevil
    according to a book i have on plant resources of south east asia PROSEA it can have 3-12 pairs of leaflets and that is a bent up leaf rather than a terminal leaf but the terminal leaf is not always absent.
  18. se7enthdevil
    if t turns out to be privet i'd be interested in some of those nice straight woody stems. actually i'd be interested in the stems even if it isn't to be fair. as it's coming out can the larger chunks be saved for me?
  19. se7enthdevil
    any evidence of the beefsteak fungus? i'll buy a slab if you are coming this way...
  20. se7enthdevil
    it's still an oak mate. it could be a small holm oak but would need to know if it had any leaves. do you have any of them or do you even know if it was evergreen?
  21. se7enthdevil
    damn this is good looking stuff. cored one lot of bowls to see how it dries. 10", 6" and 4" i think.
  22. se7enthdevil
    it was only about 50 years old which fits for the fast rate of growth for the species. i'll have a good count of one of the slabs when i get a chance but i've been busy trying to process a couple of the logs.
  23. se7enthdevil
    this timber is bloody gorgeous... i've seen no evidence yet to dissuade me from the fact that it is what Arctostaphylos uva-ursi's guessed as Pistacia chinensis.
  24. se7enthdevil
    i should have some of the wood next week so i'll get to play with it and see if i can name that tree...
  25. se7enthdevil
    this just popped up on ebay. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Beech-Very-Large-Unusual-Beech-Burr/254051974964?hash=item3b26ad7f34:g:EZ4AAOSwrfRcLmc~ a sizeable bugger by the looks of it.

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